Description: Porites porites furcata Lamarck, 1816 (a.k.a. Porites furcata) - branched finger coral on a patch reef. Stony corals have a patchy distribution in the shallow marine waters surrounding San Salvador Island. They occur as isolated individual colonies, in patch reefs, fringing reefs, and barrier reefs. Stony corals are scleractinian anthozoan cnidarians (there are also non-scleractinian stony corals in the fossil record, such as tabulates and rugosans). They consist of individuals or colonies of gelatinous polyps that secrete hard skeletons of aragonite (CaCO3). Most scleractinian corals live in warm, tropical to subtropical, photic zone environments (the shallow portions of the world’s oceans where sunlight penetrates). Microbes (Symbiodinium - Protista, Dinoflagellata/Pyrrhophyta) called zooxanthellae live in their tissues and need to be in sunlight to make their own food (photosynthesis), which is shared with the host coral animal. Scleractinian corals have stinging cells (nematocysts) in their tentacles that paralyze prey. The pale lavender-colored crusts are calcareous red algae - probably Porolithon pachydermum. Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Poritidae Locality: patch reef south of French Bay government dock, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 15 March 2013, 13:07. Source: Porites porites furcata (branched finger coral) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 11. Author: James St. John.
Summary[edit] Description: Beds of staghorn coral (Acropora Sp) undulate across the sea floor at Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific, some 1,600 miles southwest of Honolulu. (Jim Maragos/USFWS). Date: 12 March 2005, 12:40. Source: Staghorn coral on Baker Island NWR Uploaded by Dolovis. Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters.
Neville Coleman, Australian Institute of Marine Science, (2013)
EOL staff
Favia favusFavia favus. Indonesia. Common variation in corallite shape and colour. Neville Coleman.From Australian Institute of Marine Science, (2013). AIMS Coral Fact Sheets - Favia favus. Viewed 10 January 2013 http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0149
Summary[edit] Description: Español: Lithoscaptus semperi. A: vista dorsal de hembra, B: vista ventral de hembra, C: vista dorsal de macho, D: vista ventral de macho, E: vista dorsal de macho juvenil, F: alojamiento de L. semperi, izquierda macho y derecha hembra, en Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, Kudat, Malasia. Date: 2012. Source: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5170&display_type=list&element_type=8. Author: van der Meij SET (2015) A new gall crab species (Brachyura, Cryptochiridae) associated with the free-living coral Trachyphyllia geoffroyi (Scleractinia, Merulinidae). ZooKeys 500: 61-72. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.500.9244.